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July 11, 2019

Exclusive: NASA administrator explains decision to replace head of human spaceflight programs

The longtime head of NASA鈥檚 human spaceflight programs has been replaced as the agency races to meet President Trump鈥檚 ambitious goal of returning American astronauts to the Moon in five years.

July 11, 2019

NASA is building robots that can climb Mars, including an 'ice worm'

NASA is no stranger to building robots, having created ones that are currently exploring Mars, traveling to the International Space Station and ones that look like inflatable "aliens."

July 10, 2019

Apollo 11: NASA and the 'lost' Moon landing tapes

NASA has responded to recent reports of 鈥渓ost鈥� Apollo 11 Moon landing tapes, but is adamant that聽no footage of the historic mission has been lost.

July 10, 2019

Could NASA build the Saturn V today? It's working on it. With a twist.

For a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon.

July 10, 2019

Massive, kilometer-sized asteroid was just found orbiting the Sun

A newly-found asteroid has been spotted orbiting the Sun, whizzing past the star every 151 days, the shortest orbit of any space rock on record.

July 9, 2019

Arizona city played critical role in moon exploration history

When people think about space missions聽and moon landings, it's usually Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Houston, Texas, that comes to mind.聽But Flagstaff, Ariz., has also played a critical role in space exploration.

July 9, 2019

Stunning Apollo 11 cornfield maze depicts Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon

A stunning maze depicting Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has been created in a cornfield to mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.

July 9, 2019

Seven inventions from the Apollo space program we still use today

It鈥檚 been nearly 50 years since NASA put a man on the moon but many of the technologies invented for the groundbreaking Apollo space program are still used in our lives on Earth today. From the tiny cameras in our cellphones to the heat-proof uniforms used by firefighters to protect them from the dangers of the job 鈥� here are seven famous inventions from the 1960s moon shot.

July 9, 2019

Golf on the Moon: How Alan Shepard tricked NASA and hit the most famous shot in history

When you think of golf, legendary players like Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods and Bobby Jones may come to mind. None of those legends, however, hit arguably the most fabled shot in history. That distinction belongs to a NASA astronaut.

July 5, 2019

Mysterious 'Earthquake mountain' swallowed up by ocean, NASA images show

Zalzala Koh may be out of sight for now, but that does not mean it is completely gone. In 2019, hints of the island persist in Landsat imagery. As recently as June 2019, Landsat observed trails of sediment circulating around the submerged base. The series of images above shows the island in April and September 2013, November 2016, and April 2019. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on EO-1 acquired the September 2013 image; all the others images came from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.